Word: painted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Downgrading of certain tasks completely disregards the dramatic possibilities of almost any career. We may rant against toil, and yet we were created for it. While deploring job hardships, we doggedly scrub and paint at home to enhance the family image. Prolonged inactivity leaves us mean or deadened...
Among the hottest items on Moscow's black market these days, along with long-playing records of Jesus Christ Superstar and bell-bottom blue jeans are, of all things, icons. "Words about God in paint," as they have been called, these centuries-old religious images painted on wooden panels are celebrated as one of the most sublime achievements of Russian culture. Even though the Soviet government still severely discourages popular support of the Orthodox faith, icons have lately regained some of their old luster and status in the U.S.S.R., and have inspired what Moscow's Literaturnaya Gazeta calls...
...something called the Star Time Dance Studios, which gave him just enough coaching to appear at an annual recital at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. "You got out there in your silk shirt, baggy silk pants, and the tap shoes your mother had you paint silver the night before," he remembers happily. "It was a beautiful experience, and if I had to do it over, I'd come up the same...
...moralist, Halberstam tends to paint his villains monochromatic black. The distinctions between tormented, self-divided men like McNamara and a hyperoptimist like Rostow get blurred by the author's urge to define a single Viet Nam type. Halberstam's heroes seem more varied, more living. His few heroes are the men who said...
...does not, even now, seem a great injustice of art history. He lived in Philadelphia and was Thomas Eakins' teaching assistant. Though a number of his students developed into remarkable painters (Marin and Sloan among them). Anshutz did not, and Steelworkers -Noontime (1880-82) is the one painting by which he is known: a solidly composed, tight, rather dry performance, closely observed, small in scale (17 in. by 24 in.). It is a terse comment on the nature of work, and. by implication, on the artist's role as a worker. Fifty of his contemporaries in France, England...